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A New "ARRL The Doctor is In" Audio Podcast Episode is Now Available
•World Amateur Radio Day 2016 Will Celebrate Amateur Radio's Contribution to Society
•ARRL MF Experiment Coordinator Sees Ongoing Research Role After Hams Gain 472-479 kHz
•National Parks on the Air Update
•Author, TV Reporter are the 2015 ARRL Bill Leonard, W2SKE, Award Recipients
•MicroHAMS Digital Conference Showcases Innovative Applications, Hardware
•"Cows Over the World DXpedition" Set to Get Under Way
•Hurricane Watch Net Seeks Net Control Operators
•Ohio SEC Expanding "NVIS Antenna Day" Activity this Year
•In Brief...
•The K7RA Solar Update
•This Week in Radiosport
•Upcoming ARRL Section, State, and Division Conventions and Events
A New "ARRL The Doctor is In" Audio Podcast Episode is Now Available
"HF Vertical Antennas" will be the topic of the inaugural "ARRL The Doctor is In" audio podcast, available on April 7 and sponsored by DX Engineering. "ARRL The Doctor is In" is a lively discussion of all things technical. Listen on your computer, tablet, or smartphone -- whenever and wherever you like!
Every 2 weeks your host, QST Editor in Chief Steve Ford, WB8IMY, and the Doctor himself, Joel Hallas, W1ZR, will discuss a broad range of technical topics. You can e-mail your questions to doctor@arrl.org, and they may be answered in a future podcast.
Enjoy "ARRL The Doctor is In" on Apple iTunes, or by using your iPhone or iPad podcast app (just search for "ARRL The Doctor is In"). You can also listen online through Stitcher and through the free Stitcher app for iOS, Kindle, or Android devices. Subscribe to the podcast free of charge through either service and never miss an episode.
Podcast episodes will be archived on the ARRL website.
World Amateur Radio Day 2016 Will Celebrate Amateur Radio's Contribution to Society
World Amateur Radio Day (WARD), observed every April 18, marks the founding of the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) in 1925. As they do every year, radio amateurs worldwide will take to the airwaves to celebrate Amateur Radio's contribution to society.
"April 18 is the day for all of Amateur Radio to celebrate and tell the world about the science we can help teach, the community service we can provide, and the fun we have," the IARU said in announcing World Amateur Radio Day 2016. "We hope you will join in the fun and education that is World Amateur Radio Day!"
Amateur Radio experimenters were the first to discover that -- far from being a wasteland -- the shortwave spectrum could support worldwide propagation. In the rush to use these shorter wavelengths, Amateur Radio was "in grave danger of being pushed aside," the IARU's history has noted. Amateur Radio pioneers -- ARRL co-founder Hiram Percy Maxim, 1AW, among them -- met in Paris in 1925 and created the IARU to support Amateur Radio worldwide.
As Maxim and his counterparts envisioned, the IARU is an international confederation of national Amateur Radio organizations that allows a forum for common matters of concern and collectively represents matters to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).
Just 2 years later, at the International Radiotelegraph Conference, Amateur Radio gained several allocations still recognized today -- 160, 80, 40, 20, and 10 meters. Since its founding, the IARU has worked to defend and expand the frequency allocations for Amateur Radio.
From the 25 countries that formed the IARU in 1925, the IARU has grown to include 160 member-societies in three regions. IARU Region 1 includes Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Northern Asia. Region 2 covers the Americas, and Region 3 is comprised of Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific island nations, and most of Asia. The ITU has recognized the IARU as representing the interests of Amateur Radio.
Today, Amateur Radio is more popular than ever, with over 3,000,000 licensed operators!
The IARU has provided a World Amateur Radio Day poster. Any club may download it to promote WARD. The poster comes in two sizes (61cm x 91cm) (small (A4) flyer).
Groups should promote their WARD activity on social media by using the hash tag #WARD2016 on Twitter and on Facebook. The IARU will list all WARD activities (scroll below the announcement). To have your WARD activity listed, e-mail ARRL Media and Public Relations Manager Sean Kutzko, KX9X. Read more.
ARRL MF Experiment Coordinator Sees Ongoing Research Role After Hams Gain 472-479 kHz
The coordinator of the 600 Meter Experimental Group, Fritz Raab, W1FR, said this week that he sees an ongoing role for medium frequency (MF) experimentation, even after Amateur Radio gains access to the new 630 meter band (472-479 kHz). An FCC Report and
LF/MF "Tower A" at VO1NA in Torbay, Newfoundland. [Joe Craig, VO1NA, photo]
Order authorizing Amateur Radio access to 2200 meters (135.7-137.8 kHz) and 630 meters is expected to be released soon. In his 1st quarter report for 2016 on the WD2XSH Experimental license work, Raab said that once the new ham band is in place, he expects ARRL experiment participants to pursue work in that part of the spectrum under their Amateur Radio licenses. But he said that more MF research remains, and he would recommend continuing work under the WD2XSH Experimental a while longer, shifting focus to 461 to 472 kHz.
"This will clear the amateur frequencies, while allowing the experimenters to run unattended propagation beacons without using the limited bandwidth that will be available to amateurs." The WD2XSH Part 5 Experimental license does not expire until 2020. A substantial community of Amateur Radio operators already conduct experiments using their own FCC Part 5 licenses in the low frequency (LF) and MF spectrum, in addition to the WD2XSH experiment.
Raab this week suggested several possibilities for expanded experimental work in the vicinity of 630 meters without cluttering the limited 7 kHz of spectrum in the soon-to-be-authorized amateur band. Among other things, he envisions work using wider-bandwidth modulation protocols, the use of higher power than the 1 W EIRP expected to be authorized for the new ham band, and commemorative transmissions.
"Eventually, this operation might show that the amateur allocation could be expanded or allowed to use more power," Raab said. Read more.
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